Joystream Plans to Go Live on Bitcoin Cash Mainnet in Days

Joystream is a Bittorrent application that offers rewards for downloading and seeding torrent files. The startup was founded by Dr. Bedeho Mender, and the development team first launched its alpha clients back 2015. The original Bittorrent software enables peer-to-peer file sharing, but Joystream hopes micropayment incentives for sharing files and bandwidth can help create a more robust torrenting atmosphere. Dr. Mender told news.Bitcoin.com back in 2015 that for cryptocurrencies like bitcoin to have value they should be distributed widely. Read more...

Even though some people may still doubt it to be the case, the cryptocurrency markets are not out of the woods just yet. Even though we have seen multiple steep corrections this year already, there’s no reason to think things will only get better from here on out. If the NEM price is any indication, though, things will get rather interesting in the days to come.Read more...

Visakhapatnam, also known as Vizag, may be a picturesque little coastal city but if all goes according to plan, it could become India’s FinTech hub.

Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Chandrababu Naidu, is no stranger to transforming cities into veritable tech hubs. First Hyderabad, which houses the country’s Google and Facebook headquarters, and now Vizag.

According to Forbes, Naidu, as the chief architect of the FinTech Valley Vizag initiative, hopes to turn the city into a first-rate FinTech ecosystem luring entrepreneurs, businesses, investors, academic organizations and of course, government. Read more...

With large and small-scale cyber attacks costing exchanges and individuals their hard-earned digital currencies, one company is releasing a smartphone aimed at securing your investments from even the most skilled would-be cryptocurrency thieves.

One Phone to Secure Them All

Sikur, a cybersecurity firm based in Germany, has released a smartphone designed to protect your cryptocurrency from even the most skillful hackers.

Unveiled today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the SIKURPhone features — in addition to a 5.5-inch full-HD display and 13-megapixel rear camera — a built-in cryptocurrency software wallet.

Coalichain, a decentralized political platform that connects citizens to their leaders and governments, has announced its crowdsale for the ZUZ token. Coalichain offers a transparent and decentralized alternative to the current democratic system through the use of Web 3.0 features and blockchain technology. It has gained the interest of influential leaders and political parties in countries including Estonia, France, Switzerland and Australia, and will soon release the beta version of its mobile app. Read more...

There seems to be a sudden surge of ICOs in the gambling space, and Zero Edge has caught our attention. It aims to create a cryptocurrency for the online gambling space and they have an ICO coming up. Zero Edge is a decentralized online casino and an open protocol which aims to offer players 0% house edge casino games, fee-less sports betting and an open source platform for building online games.

Zero Edge will be creating their own token named Zerocoin which is a fundamental part of their business model. Adrian Casey, CEO of ZeroEdge, says: Read more...

The Abyss is a next-generation digital distribution platform with the vision to create a crypto reward ecosystem for millions of gamers and developers.

January 11, 2018 — The Abyss, the next generation digital distribution game platform, today announced the intent to launch a pioneering DAICO, a reinforced version of ICO merged with aspects of Decentralized Autonomous Organisation (DAO). The DAICO fundraising model was proposed by Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, earlier this month as a more responsible way to conduct initial coin offerings. The Abyss DAICO is scheduled on February 7, 2018. Read more...

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